About me
Perhaps you're the one everyone leans on. You hold it all in and keep going, and somewhere along the way you stopped asking what you need. I'm Jacob, a counsellor based in rural Somerset, just outside Weston and Burnham, and online. I work with adults, teens (13+) and couples.
Carrying it all looks different from person to person. For some it means being the strong one and never letting anything show, until the anger comes out sideways or you run out of road. For others it means holding everything together for everyone, saying yes when you mean no, and staying in a relationship or family that takes more than it gives. Either way, people often arrive worn down, anxious or low, or with the kind of perfectionism that looks like high functioning from the outside and feels like exhaustion from the inside. You might not be able to switch off, rest without guilt, or silence the voice that says you haven't done enough. Most of the time that's not a disorder. It's something you learned, and it can change.
My approach is humanistic and relational, grounded in Transactional Analysis, and I draw on CBT and on Carl Jung's work with dreams and meaning where it helps. We look at the beliefs you picked up early: why they formed, who installed them, and what keeps them running. I'll challenge you, respectfully but directly, and I won't let you carry blame that was never yours. I also won't pretend I have all the answers. What I will do is show up consistently, take you seriously, and work alongside you until something genuinely shifts. That's why therapy with me tends to be longer-term.
I also work with couples navigating betrayal, communication breakdowns, and the patterns that keep repeating despite both people trying.
I work with ADHD and autism in teens and adults. I'm not a diagnostic specialist, but I work with what a diagnosis means for the person living with it: what it explains and what it doesn't, what it gives you and what it might be costing you. I also offer personal therapy to counsellors in training.
I'm a registered member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society and hold a degree in Counselling from University Centre Weston. I offer a free introductory call. It doesn't make sense to commit to working together if we're not a good fit, so it's better to find that out before you've paid for a session.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Degree in Counselling, University Centre Weston
- Self-Harm and Suicide Awareness and Prevention
- ADHD
- Transactional Analysis and Couples
- Transactional Analysis 101
- Dissociation
- Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
- Domestic Abuse: Children and Young People
- Safeguarding
- OCD
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society This Not For Profit association of counsellors and psychotherapists aim to support the counselling profession, members and training organisations. In 2013 the NCS register was accredited by the Professional Standards Authority under the Accredited Voluntary Register Scheme. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
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Fees
£65.00 per session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
£65 for one-to-one sessions and £85 for couples sessions. Free introductory call before your first session. A small number of reduced-fee places for counsellors in training.
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